Virginia · Private foundation
Birdsong Trust Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $104k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Birdsong Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $104k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $105k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $115k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $106k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $113k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $110k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $105k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $111k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nansemond Suffolk Academy Association Inc | $191,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc | $146,008 | 8 | 1% |
| Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc | $133,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Forkids Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| All District Reads Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Nansemond River Preservation Alliance | $13,400 | 3 | 5% |
| Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Suffolk Art League | $9,240 | 4 | 2% |
| Hope for Suffolk | $7,375 | 1 | 3% |
| Suffolk Cheer Fund | $7,000 | 7 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nansemond Suffolk Academy Association Inc | $191,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc | $146,008 | 8 | 1% |
| Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc | $133,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Forkids Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| All District Reads Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Nansemond River Preservation Alliance | $13,400 | 3 | 5% |
| Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Suffolk Art League | $9,240 | 4 | 2% |
| Hope for Suffolk | $7,375 | 1 | 3% |
| Suffolk Cheer Fund | $7,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The Children's Center | $6,850 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Lifesaver Inc | $3,547 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Suffolk & Isle of Wight Inc | $3,296 | 2 | 1% |
| Riddicks Folly | $3,200 | 1 | 3% |
| Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Suffolk Christian Academy | $2,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Suffolk Literacy Council Inc | $2,100 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Birdsong Trust Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Birdsong Charitable Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc · The Pruden Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Community Action Coalition · Richard Bennett Trust · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · United Way of South Hampton Roads
How this is measured
About Birdsong Trust Fund
- How much does Birdsong Trust Fund give?
- Birdsong Trust Fund reported 8 grants totaling $103,809 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Birdsong Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (18%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
- Who are Birdsong Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nansemond Suffolk Academy Association Inc ($191k), Western Tidewater Free Clinic Inc ($146k), Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc ($133k).
- Does Birdsong Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Birdsong Trust Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Birdsong Trust Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Birdsong Charitable Foundation, Suffolk Foundation, Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc.
- Where is Birdsong Trust Fund based?
- Birdsong Trust Fund is based in VA.
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